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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
IEP
Universal Screening
Greek layer of language
Impulsivity
2. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
The Norman Conquest
Derived Score
GORT
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
3. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Base Word
Chall's Stage 4
Modern English
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
4. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Phonics approach
Simultaneous teaching
Vowel
CTOPP
5. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Oral Language
Frank Smith
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Vowel Digraph
6. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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7. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Modification
Percentile/ percentile rank
Mathew Effect
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
8. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Great Vowel Shift
Semantics
Attention
Achievement test
9. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Expressive language
Quadrigraph
Combination
Reliability
10. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Sight Words
ALTA
Dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
11. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Middle English
Towre
Accent
Affix
12. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Three Layers of Language
Phonics approach
Simultaneous teaching
Composite Score
13. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Norm-referenced tests
Receptive language
Accuracy
Phonological Awareness
14. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Adolf Kusmaul
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Phonics
Old English
15. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Attention
Syllable
[-'le
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
16. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Diagnostic tests
Semantics
Auditory Processing
Middle English
17. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Texas Education Code 38.003
WRAT
Synthetic Instruction
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
18. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
SBOE
Battery
Standard score
MSLE
19. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
James Hinshelwood
Consonant Digraph
Derivative
Greek layer of language
20. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Mastery level
Six basic types of syllables
Standard deviation
Diagnostic Teaching
21. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Profile
Samuel T. Orton
22. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
ALTA
Sight Words
Letter naming Chart
NICHD
23. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Simultaneous teaching
Direct Instruction
Battery
RTI
24. Open syllable
Middle English
V >
Grade equivalents
Three Layers of Language
25. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Great Vowel Shift
Derived Score
Accent
Criterion referenced tests
26. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
V-e
Matthew Effect
Digraph
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
27. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Chall's Stage 1
Open Syllable
Base Word
Multi-Sensory Approach
28. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Affix
WIATII
Derivative
V-e
29. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Tactile
Syllable
Synthetic Instruction
VC
30. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Macron
Funding
Texas Education Code 38.003
Cedilla
31. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
GORT
Vr
Tactile
32. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Phonemic/ decodable words
Anglo Saxon
Greek layer of language
Linguistic Method
33. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Anna Gillingham
Morphology
Orthography
Cognitive Assessment
34. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Top-down Reading Approach
Consonant
Texas Education Code 28.06
Sound Symbol Association
35. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Trigraph
Modern English
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
36. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Letter naming Chart
Suffix
Auditory Processing
Tactile
37. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Standard Scores
Chall's Stage 3
Components of Reading Instruction
Synthetic Instruction
38. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Morpheme
Syllable
Closed Syllable
Accent
39. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Prefix
Progress Monitoring
Phonics approach
Ability
40. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Quadrigraph
Grapheme
Sound Symbol Association
41. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Vr
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Morpheme
Phonemic Awareness
42. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Cognitive Assessment
Accent
Diagnostic tests
43. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
The Norman Conquest
Consonant
Affix
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
44. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Expressive language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
MSLE
Analytic
45. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Vowel Digraph
WIATII
Phoneme
Phonemic Awareness
46. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Grapheme
Curriculum referenced tests
Syntax
Chall's Stage 3
47. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Rate
Dyslexia
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
48. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Vowel
Diphthong
Prefix
Syllable
49. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
Chall's Stage 1
VC
Auditory Processing
50. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Anna Gillingham
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
CTOPP
Standard deviation